Description

MOP03JM_8 is the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) Carbon Monoxide (CO) gridded monthly means (Near and Thermal Infrared Radiances) version 8 data product. It contains monthly mean-gridded daily Level 2 CO profile versions and total column retrievals. For this data product, the averaging kernels associated with each retrieval are also gridded and included in the Level 3 files. For a description of the file contents, refer to the File Spec Document. The MOPITT Level 2 Data Quality Statement contains additional information about the retrievals' quality and limitations. MOPITT was successfully launched into sun-synchronous polar orbit aboard Terra, NASA's first Earth Observing System spacecraft, on December 18, 1999. The MOPITT instrument was constructed by a consortium of Canadian companies and funded by the Space Science Division of the Canadian Space Agency. Data collection for this product is complete.

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Publications which Cite this Collection

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Mottungan, Kavitha; Roychoudhury, Chayan; Brocchi, Vanessa; Gaubert, Benjamin; Tang, Wenfu; Mirrezaei, Mohammad Amin; McKinnon, John; Guo, Yafang; Griffith, David W. T.; Feist, Dietrich G.; Morino, Isamu; Sha, Mahesh K.; Dubey, Manvendra K.; De Mazière, Martine; Deutscher, Nicholas M.; Wennberg, Paul O.; Sussmann, Ralf; Kivi, Rigel; Goo, Tae-Young; Velazco, Voltaire A.; Wang, Wei; Arellano Jr., Avelino F. (2024). Local and regional enhancements of CH4, CO, and CO2 inferred from TCCON column measurements.

Anderson, Daniel C.; Duncan, Bryan N.; Nicely, Julie M.; Liu, Junhua; Strode, Sarah A.; Follette-Cook, Melanie B. (2023). Technical note: Constraining the hydroxyl (OH) radical in the tropics with satellite observations of its drivers – first steps toward assessing the feasibility of a global observation strategy.

Daskalakis, Nikos; Gallardo, Laura; Kanakidou, Maria; Nüß, Johann Rasmus; Menares, Camilo; Rondanelli, Roberto; Thompson, Anne M.; Vrekoussis, Mihalis (2022). Impact of biomass burning and stratospheric intrusions in the remote South Pacific Ocean troposphere.

Whaley, Cynthia H.; Mahmood, Rashed; von Salzen, Knut; Winter, Barbara; Eckhardt, Sabine; Arnold, Stephen; Beagley, Stephen; Becagli, Silvia; Chien, Rong-You; Christensen, Jesper; Damani, Sujay Manish; Dong, Xinyi; Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Faluvegi, Gregory; Flanner, Mark; Fu, Joshua S.; Gauss, Michael; Giardi, Fabio; Gong, Wanmin; Hjorth, Jens Liengaard; Huang, Lin; Im, Ulas; Kanaya, Yugo; Krishnan, Srinath; Klimont, Zbigniew; Kühn, Thomas; Langner, Joakim; Law, Kathy S.; Marelle, Louis; Massling, Andreas; Olivié, Dirk; Onishi, Tatsuo; Oshima, Naga; Peng, Yiran; Plummer, David A.; Popovicheva, Olga; Pozzoli, Luca; Raut, Jean-Christophe; Sand, Maria; Saunders, Laura N.; Schmale, Julia; Sharma, Sangeeta; Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt; Skov, Henrik; Taketani, Fumikazu; Thomas, Manu A.; Traversi, Rita; Tsigaridis, Kostas; Tsyro, Svetlana; Turnock, Steven; Vitale, Vito; Walker, Kaley A.; Wang, Minqi; Watson-Parris, Duncan; Weiss-Gibbons, Tahya (2022). Model evaluation of short-lived climate forcers for the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme: a multi-species, multi-model study.

Liu, Junhua; Strode, Sarah A.; Liang, Qing; Oman, Luke D.; Colarco, Peter R.; Fleming, Eric L.; Manyin, Michael E.; Douglass, Anne R.; Ziemke, Jerald R.; Lamsal, Lok N.; Li, Can (2015). Change in Tropospheric Ozone in the Recent Decades and Its Contribution to Global Total Ozone.

Resources and Documentation

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Earthdata Forum

HOME PAGE

PROFESSIONAL HOME PAGE

University of Toronto MOPITT Overview

Terra Instrument home page

PROJECT HOME PAGE

U.S. MOPITT project home page

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

• NASA EOS ATB Documents: MOPITT

DATA CITATION GUIDELINES

• How to cite ASDC data

DATA QUALITY

• ASDC List of MOPITT Quality Statements
• Quality Summary: MOPITT Level 3, Version 8 (V8; L3V5.6.x), first released December, 2018

HOW-TO

• Examples on how to access and visualize various NASA HDF/HDF-EOS files using Python (pyhdf/h5py), NCL, MATLAB®, and IDL®, NCL, MATLAB®, and IDL®

MICRO ARTICLE

• Earth Observing System Data and InformationSystem (EOSDIS) Article: On The Trail of Global Pollution Drift
• NASA Earth Observatory Article: Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia : Natural Hazards - Data taken by the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite have been combined for 6 days from January 15-20, 2003
• NASA Earth Observatory Article: Carbon Monoxide from Tropical Fires : Natural Hazards - The Terra MOPITT sensor observed large plumes of carbon monoxide produced by biomass burning in South America and Africa in early August 2004.
• NASA Earth Observatory Article: Fires and Thick Smoke over South America : Natural Hazards - Places where MOPITT could not collect enough data to make an estimate of carbon monoxide (probably due to clouds) are gray.
• NASA Earth Observatory Article: MOPITT First Light Image : Image of the Day - MOPITT measures radiances in several channels to determine the amount of carbon monoxide (CO) and methane in the atmosphere.
• NASA Earth Observatory Article: MOPITT Views Carbon Monoxide Concentration, there were widespread wildfires across Montana and Idaho.
• NASA Earth Observatory Article: MOPITT Views North America : Image of the Day - Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere, MOPITT, measures two important pollutants in the Earth's atmosphere—carbon monoxide (CO) and methane.
• NASA Earthdata Article: Nature's contribution: Researchers investigate how much wildfires contribute to pollution, and how far this pollution can travel - By Jane Beitler

PRODUCTION HISTORY

• MOPITT Data Products Overview

PUBLICATIONS

• U.S. MOPITT Project home page list of publications

SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT VALIDATION

• Validation of MOPITT CO Mixing Ratio and Column Retrievals

USER FEEDBACK PAGE

• NASA Earthdata Forum - MOPITT Project Specific Forum

USER'S GUIDE

• MOPITT Version 8 Product User's Guide

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